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  1. Re:Big Boobs? on Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel · · Score: 2

    s/0xB16B00B5 /0xB167175/g ?

  2. Re:I stand behind McDonalds on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    Listen to the pre-call announcement which usually says 'this call may be recorded for '.

    It usually doesn't say 'by us, not by you'

    I take that as permission for myself to record also. No need to tell them.

  3. Re:Thanks on RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software · · Score: 1

    Me too! Love this Streisand thingy...

  4. Re:Tolkien, of course on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 1

    I hope it was the original version where Bilbo stabs first.

    Written in the original Klingon.

  5. Re:Not Surprised on Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm not surprised either.

    He's a politician. And probably a part of the decision, or from the party that decided to implement this.

    He's never going to admit any other result.

  6. Re:Not in the TFA on Details of Initial "Disc to Digital" Program Emerge · · Score: 1

    Can you just take them off the shelf?

  7. Re:$2mil per corpse on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 1

    Right, if I knew my family would benefit financially, as well as some stranger for my death I'd feel better about being a donor. I'm still a donor though. It feels the right thing to do.

  8. Re:when you can no longer post on /. on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You sure? there seem to be a few brain dead posters still around...

  9. Re:tip of the ice berg - not even the real story! on Linode Exploit Caused Theft of Thousands of Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Shoulda used a double secret back-door master password...

  10. Re:Still in violation on North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities · · Score: 1

    What's the saying?

    Fool me once - shame on you,
    Fool me twice...

  11. Re:"almost certainly" on No, SETI Has Not Detected Alien Signals From Space · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite certain that could be viewed as a positive development ... imagine making contact with a civilization where they'd excell at legal thinking and came here to practice law? could be a scary thing.

    Maybe that's already happened?

  12. Re:Censorship. on French Court Frowns On Autocomplete, Tells Google To Remove Searches · · Score: 1

    You mean a load of mer de

  13. Re:alaska anyone? on Is the Canadian Arctic the Future of Astronomy? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, globes are not provided, for fear of upsetting those who believe the Earth is flat.

  14. Re:And the same questions as always. on Teachers Resist High-tech Push In Idaho Schools · · Score: 1

    One of the best ways o reduce obsolecense costs and theft in the educational environment is to use a thin client / terminal services based solution. You can even virtualise the servers so they can easily be restored to a standard state.

    This is becoming common in education architectures mainly in the second world, (Asia/Latin America) for some reason.

  15. Re:Sounds Like a Hoax Right Up Until You Read the on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds more like a fiddle to me.

  16. Re:Geek perspective: websites on Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this a load of .bs ?

  17. Re:Not new. on IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, and this is something practically every industry has been doing for years. It's called MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and is part of any modern automation plant. News I guess because it's China and typically MES has been implemented (if at all) with Humans rather than computers until now.

    MES on a meat plant is interesting BTW. usually a product is built of a number of raw materials, which are tracked into the produced lots. With an animal, you have a single raw material being used as a source of several finished goods. Kind of a reverse process.

  18. Re:Way to Go Universal! on YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Me too.

    Now I have an account.

    Thanks UMG!

  19. Pickaxe. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Sorted. Next question?

  20. Re:At this point, only bandwidth matters to me on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    +2

    All I need is bandwidth. SickBeard and sabnzbd means that my XBMC is populated with all the programs we watch, sometimes before they are finished (or even started) broadcasting here on the west coast.

  21. Re:No Borders Rewards Card on Borders Bust Means B&N May Get Your Shopping History · · Score: 1

    I have one, but since I always use mail redirection (my email address with them is borders@myowndomain.com for example), if I start getting spam it's a simple matter to delete that forward.

    Times like this I am glad I do this!

  22. Re:1 in 21 trillion ... on Defunct Satellite To Fall From the Sky · · Score: 1

    all i can say is that I'm glad i'm not a girl named George.

    Or a boy named Sue.

  23. Re:Mass != weight on Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission · · Score: 1

    Sure, but in informal writing by earthlings, kg as a unit of weight pretty clearly is taken to mean "the weight that a 1 kg object would have at sea-level earth gravity".

    African kilogram or European?

  24. Re:There's a line on RIM Helping UK Police Track Down Rioters · · Score: 1

    Yea, we only riot when there's a worthy cause. Like the Lakers playing the NBA final.

  25. Re:New Arm of Milky Way Gives Warped Structure on Newly-Discovered Arm of Milky Way Gives Warped Structure · · Score: 1

    Arthur Dent, "I've always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."

    It's still mostly armless.